1. Mike Fitzmaurice Technical Product Manager Microsoft Corporation
OFC333: Enterprise Application Integration Using SharePoint Portal Server
Mike Fitzmaurice Technical Product Manager Microsoft Corporation

2. SharePoint Investments Smart Connected Workspaces
Consistent rich experience – users, developers, and IT
Smart connections – people, teams, topics, divisions, etc.
Flexible deployment – bottoms-up, centralized, hybrid on large scale farms
Enterprise
Division
Team
Individual

3. SharePoint Investments
Enterprise Portal Solution built on top of Windows SharePoint Services
Hub and Aggregator for SharePoint personal, team and portal sites
SharePoint Portal Server
News and Links
Site Directory and Connections
Personal Sites
Audience Targeting
Index, Search and Alerts
Single Sign-On
BizTalk Integration
Team Collaboration Solution well beyond file server
Scalable Workspace Platform
SharePoint Services
Collaboration
Document Collaboration
Flexible Lists
Web Part Pages
Personalization
Life Cycle Management
Scale-Up/Out Foundation

4. Agenda Customer Scenarios EAI Strategy Application Models
The portal application platform
Portal services
Application/integration server
Web Services
Developer Tools
Office applications
Code samples
Connecting to SAP
Connecting to Siebel
Demos

5. Customer Challenges/ Scenarios
Application Integration problems
I need to provide data from SAP in context of the portal
I need employees to be able to find and use business critical systems
I need to quickly create a composite application that connects to many systems
Scenarios
Employee self-service
Human resources Web
Payroll information
Expense reports
My benefits
CEO dashboard
Pulse of the business
Sales Force automation
360 degree view of the customer
My accounts, opportunities, todos, etc.
Others

6. EAI Strategy Mainstream platform Spectrum of tools
Best platform for building composite portal applications
Primarily synchronous focused with async integration via BizTalk
Web Parts and Web Services in Windows
Rich Office applications
Primary target: Developer, secondary: power user, biz analyst
Spectrum of tools
Visual Studio .NET
Web Clipping, Office and components, FrontPage
Spectrum of integration models
Full EAI framework with SPS + BizTalk
Third-Party support
250+ BizTalk Adapters
Web Parts momentum as Windows technology

7. Composite Application Platform
Web
Part
Web
Part
Web
Part
WebPart Interaction
Personalization
Categorization
Search
Single Sign-On
Portal
SharePoint Portal
WebServices
Single Sign-On Orchestration
Business Rules
Schema Mapping
Load Balancing
Sync/Async
Auditing
Integration:
BizTalk
Process and Integration
App Server:
Windows 2003
BT Adapters
Connectors
SAP
Siebel
. . .
Applications

8. SPS Integration Models
Web
Part
App
App/Integration Server
Web Clip \ Page Graft
HTML \ XML
Point to Point
WebServices \ SQL \ Custom
DB/DW
Data Cache \ Warehouse
Point-to-Point

9. 2a. Retrieve credentials 4. Retrieve credentials for ticket
Portal Service: SSO
Credential Mapping Database
Per-user credentials
Group credentials
Certificate support
Programmable at display or application tier
Distributed Ticketing
Integrated into BizTalk and adaptors (Actional first)
Does not require Windows Server 2003/2000 AD deployment
3a. Login with
credentials
Ex. Oracle
WP | WP | WP
1. Authenticate
Web FE
3b. Pass ticket WS
Adaptor
For BizTalk
BizTalk 2002
BizTalk
Adaptors
5. Login with
credentials
2a. Retrieve credentials
for app/user
2b. Retrieve ticket
for app/user
4. Retrieve credentials for ticket
SSO
Ex. SAP
Encrypted DB storage

10. Integration: BizTalk Technology used Web Services Adaptor for BizTalk
Exposes backend APIs as Web services
Integrated with SSO
BizTalk connector architecture
300+ adaptors
Actional adaptors
SAP, Siebel, and PeopleSoft
SSO enabled
Sync or async
Orchestration
Transformation services

11. Tools And Applications
High-end developer
Visual Studio .NET
Power user, business analyst
FrontPage
Office
Web Parts
DataCalc
DataView
Chart
Part to part communications
Rich client composite applications
Excel
InfoPath
Word XML

12. Code Sample: SAP PayStub
Sample SAP app for HR self-service
Two application models
Application server
Data cache
MSDN Dev Center

13. PayStub Demonstrates The EAI Platform
Application Server Model
Web Parts
Calling backend APIs as Web Services (BizTalk Web Services)
BizTalk Web Services calling SSO (individual user application, ticket granting/retrieving)
Method aggregation via Orchestration
Custom Business logic via Orchestration
BizTalk connectors
Use of SPS personalization
Data cache model
Web Part
SPS personalization
Calling SSO (group application) from a Web form control
Calling SQL via ADO.Net

14. Connecting To SAP Synchronous Applications
What’s needed
Visual Studio .NET
SAP .NET Connector or BizTalk 2002
An understanding of BAPIs/RFCs
Best practice (application server)
App Server:
Windows.Net
Web
Part
Web
Part
SAP
Custom SOAP
SharePoint Portal
SSO
.NET Connector
SSO

15. Connecting To Siebel Synchronous applications
What’s needed
Visual Studio .NET
Siebel Web engine (SWE) or BizTalk
An understanding of sXML (Siebel XML)
Best practice (application server)
https
SWE
Siebel DB
Web
Part
Web
Part
HTTP
sXML
SharePoint Portal
SSO

16. demo
Application Integration Tools

17. SharePoint Products and Technologies Sessions at TechEd
Connecting, Communicating, and Collaborating with Microsoft® SharePoint™ Products and Technologies 
Architecture and Deployment: Microsoft® SharePoint™ Products and Technologies
Moving to Microsoft® Windows SharePoint™ Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 from Previous SharePoint Releases
Intranets Solution Accelerator for Microsoft®
Securing Microsoft® SharePoint™ Products and Technologies
Integrating Microsoft® Content Management Server with Microsoft SharePoint™ Technologies
Developing Web Parts for Microsoft® SharePoint™ Products and Technologies 
Enterprise Application Integration Using Microsoft® SharePoint™ Portal Server

18. Other SharePoint Products And Technologies Content At TechEd
Ask the Experts
Partner Booths
Hands on Labs
Introduction to SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Managing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Content and Navigation
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 People and Personalization
Using Windows SharePoint Services with Office 2003  
Using FrontPage 2003 to Customize SharePoint
Creating Web Parts for SharePoint

19. SharePoint Resources
Evaluate Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Betas
Download technical documentation and Software Development Kits from our Developer Center
Find and contribute Web Parts and templates to the Web Component Directory  
Visit our community websites

20. announcing. . . Web Part Development Contest

21. Community Resources Community Resources
Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Newsgroups
Converse online with Microsoft Newsgroups, including Worldwide
User Groups
Meet and learn with your peers

22. evaluations

23. Q & A

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